Well it's O/T season (well it is for me)

and we'll get the obvious.... Wigans fans (even though i said away from sport) out the way




For me

Supermarkets in which the entrance is on the right hand side of the building and you have to work from right to left.

It's not right and if it's set up this way i (genuinely) won't shop there.

Nothing irrational about it yed, it's pure evil. I went to Morrisons once, never again. Place is back to front. Just shop in ASDA or Tesco now, proper shops, the right way round.

On a related theme, I get an irrational desire to punch people in the face that add an s on the end of Tesco. 'I'm just off to Tescos' No your sodding not, there's no such place. How do you fancy going via A&E you twerp?

Phew, it's not just me then, my wife thinks I'm daft.

A worse one for me, was when I worked with about 60 or so Scouse wannabees (ie Runcorn), who always said " I'm going to THE Asda"...no, It's Asda...not THE Asda

Reminds me of a girl we knew at Uni. Everything had a 'the' transplanted before it. "We're goin th'Macdonalds love, are ya comin?"

Maintaining the retail therapy experiences:

Shopping (accompanying !) wife and daughter in Hollister - so dark you can't see the prices or the clothes

Always being in the way when waiting for the wife while she shops in ladies boutiques - should have male rest areas in all lady shops

Supermarkets with stupid narrow aisles

People blocking aisles with trollies as they have a good old chat

Self service scanners that don't actually scan and no room to fill more than one carrier bag

People who don't clean up their dogs mess in woolston park. And people who fill up at the petrol pump,on a busy forcourt at asda,tesco. Other supermarkets are available. Then leave the car whilst they do a big shop.

People who let their Children push a supermarket trolley,they clearly have no control over.
Trolley full of offers ,Bargins and buy one get one free items and your Ankles are nearly getting snapped by some little Gremlin pushing the Darn thing..

Also to many people Razzing about on those shopmobility scooters you only need to have a ingrowing toenail these days to Qualify for one of the things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dont cha just love the off season??

The poop state celebrity culture we live in where things such as those morons from Essex are hailed as idols with people wanting to be just like them.

The aspirations of the country today seem to be limited to a footballers wife, that's the pinnacle. Women have fought for equal rights etc. for decades for a bunch of moronic shlags in this generation to aim to be, basically, a whore, where they are kept women just for their looks whilst their master does god knows what elsewhere.

I went mental at my girlfriend when she told me that she queued up for over an hour to meet some moron from that Essex show in a club on holiday. Ridiculous

Back on the retail/petrol thing
1. People who let their brattish offspring (I've even seen this happen with kids upto the age of about 10) stand/sit in the main bit of a shopping trolley. HANG ON!!! People have to put fresh bread/fruit and veg in there, and your "littles camps" have just walked through dog 5h1t...not very hygienic, is it?

2. People (this one is mainly women) who, after filling their cars with fuel, go and stand in the queue to pay, and then just stand there . When they finally reach the front of the queue, they suddenly realise they have to pay, and then there's a 2 minute mad scramble through bags/handbags and wallets for their credit cards.....BE READY, YOU HALF-WITS.

3. Supermarkets (mainly Morrison's) who leave BOGOF signs out, when they've gone past their offer date, or when they've put the offer underneath the incorrect sized pack. I always check, but feel angry for all the people who they con.

This country's morbid obsession for X Factor, Britains Got Talent, I'm a 'Celebrity', Cheryl Cole and the people who react with disbelief, when I tell them I don't watch any of the above shows...."what, you don't watch X Factor? What do you do on a Saturday, then"

Overzealous bureaucracy

Chris Hollins

People who whinge at parking fines

Sports direct. Need I say more. One awful shop. Another gripe of mine is the asda cockhedge what hell hole that is. It seems to attract the worst of the people of warrington.

Primark on a busy day, people literally pushing you to get to something, down right rude degenerates!

I once went round Asda Cockhedge on a Saturday afternoon. 'Flipping heck', David Attenborough would have a field day in there. Talk about the missing link!!!

Mothers with pushchairs who start to cross a busy road by putting the ing pushchair off the kerb into the road and waiting for a gap to cross.

Same ones who can usually be heard round town on a Saturday stuffing a white hot sausage roll in their kids face, saying something along the lines of "Come on Chardonnay, you can't have your cake till you've 'et your sausage roll".

There's more goodness in the cake you wit.

Cafe owners who don't pop the egg,on your bacon sausage egg barm. So when you take a bite the egg spills all down the front off your best lonsdale hoody. You have just bought from sports direct.

Looking at today's Warrington Guardian, and shaking my head at the Charming Baby section. WTF were the parents taking, when they decided to give their babies such 5h1t3 names....."Oh look at me, I'm going call my kid Miley, after a ty American 'new sensation, TV star' "....... I'm surprised the vicars/priests allow it.

Don't these 'planks' realise, that their kids have got to go through potentially another 90 odd years, with a e name, all because they got carried away on a wave of hysteria, with a 'fashionable' TV star.


GOD, I'M ON ONE, TODAY

Thanks Lefty, that's saved me a long post. The only thing I would add to it is shopping with the wife. Why can't women walk in straight lines up on aisle and down the next in M and S?

This is my biggest gripe with supermarkets..... i used to be polite and ask nicely until one day this middle aged woman shot me a snotty look... so i just rammed her trolley out of the way with way more force than was necessary, sending it spinning into cheese section .... that seemed to work so well i have been doing it ever since.... she ruined it for everyone.

also people that leave their trolley in the middle of an aisle and walk off to browse... its not the walking off that's the problem... its the fact that no one can get past.... these people get their trolley shunted out of the way.... admittedly its not as big a crime as blocking up the aisle to talk to someone.... but its still inconsiderate and requires action.

the mrs goes mad at me..... she thinks i need anger counselling.... when she see's 2 trolleys next to each other, or one in the middle of an aisle, she turns round and walks off...... i on the other hand, like to think that i am helping educate these ill mannered heathens.... maybe next time they will think twice.

also those kids that are there to 'help' back your bags.... supermarkets shouldn't allow it.... tesco have recently succumbed to this mob of glorified beggars.... I avoid Morrison's for this very reason.

"do you need any help with your packing"

of course i don't "need" any help with my packing... i also don't want my loaf of bread putting in the bottom of a bag and having tinned goods piled on top.

if they are going to put these kids in supermarkets packing everyone's bags, they should at least give them some training on what goes where..... a bit of packing etiquette wouldn't go amiss for my 20p.

Tesco's 3 for £3 on fresh orange juice bargain (Thing is 1 carton costs £1) what's the point?! They do the same on some yoghurts... £1.34 a pack or 3 for £4 offer (Saving a grand total of 2p!!!)

Winds me up!

On the supermarket theme..

Taxi drivers who perform outrageous maneuvers in Tesco car park after dropping someone off, last week one actually hit the trolley I was pushing after slamming his car in reverse..to$$ers.

Scumbags who use the parent and child spaces when they have no children, usually someone with a 'nice' car who wants to take advantage of the bigger space. Miss Katonas ex used to do this..nuff said.

The fact that Tesco doesn't have that side entrance open all the time...WHY?!

Tesco garage and the Spar in Padgate doing 'special offers' on Pepsi Max. Such as £1 a bottle instead of £2.09 or whatever. On Monday night I was in there and there was a shelf full of Pepsi Max. About 6 wide and four deep on two levels. Approx 50 bottles, plus two more unopened crates on the floor.

I go in on Tuesday morning and there are none on the shelf but a big advert for them is still up as is the offer tag on the shelf and it's in the offers brochure they put through my door that morning.

Pathetic. Tesco does it as well, the Garage off Hilden Road roundabout. I've even seen them removing them from the shelves.

But who would I write to about this? Office of fair trading? Pepsi? Tesco/Spar HQ?

I'm not overly keen on grown men who shout down the isles to their partners, "Do we need beans love, love, do we neeed beans ..."

It tends to be middle aged men with forearm tattoos, who oddly wear Mickey Mouse t-shirts.

Car Park on Winwick Street\Tanners Lane that has signs saying £2:20 ALL DAY which they cover with a £4 sign 2 hours before kick off on match days.

Is this another for Trading Standards

Like the post - things that wind me up.
- Pronouncing economic with the accent on the e rather than eh-co-nomic - an Americanism which even the BBC and Gideon Osborne are guilty of (you can add sked-ule rather than shed-ule to that one)
- The way the country is referred to as the UK rather than Britain now. Always used to be Britain's No.1 or British forces etc.
- Supermarket car parks - do they design them to be as difficult as possible to get around?
- Describing people as two-time or three-time champions rather than double or triple.
- I'd echo the comments on the brainless nonentities that seem to be famous for being famous these days.